The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-26
PROSPERITY.

5. G. Maytield, Esq, passed few
DAYS with lis sister Mrs. w. S. Birge.
Misses Maliie Wheeler OF Newberly
and Byrdic Gardner OF Nd, are visiting
friends anal relatives in our town.
Mrs. L. B. Whites is improving vrly
slowly.
Richard Wheeler, L worthy and we'll
to-,lo colored mail, died at his lomc on
Friday last. Disease, consumption.
The Newbcrry Conference meets in
St. Luke's church on next Friday. Maj.
iP. E. Wise is the delegate elect from
Grace church.
+: Oar old friend J. {. Boozer did Our
! town the honor OF spending several days
with us prior to lis trip to the Northern
markets.
We are glad to see the R"y. {. y.
Marks on the street again. His health
rcruperatrs slowly.
N. VI. kinarl, Theolugical student OF
NewLerry Seminary preached to i large
congregation in Grace church on Sunday
morning, and again at night.
The ladies in Prosperity will give III
ic,: cream festival on Friday night at
the Academy 'uilG:n.! for the benefit OF
the Baptist ch rch.
The farmers from all sections are Jubi-
lar. over the crop prospects. The rallis
have been delightful and The young
plants are looking remarkably we'll.
A young gentleman from the town OF
Newberry, purchased a fine buggy and
harness in our town few days since.
Sell the people goods cheap and they
will buy. We keep telling this truth.
A question for medical scientists i :
why 90 so many negroes die with COZ
sumption in our days when prior to the
war. there was only rare case among
the slaves.
TO give yCu some idea OF the busi-
ness done IN our town, and to show
the general advance in business,
our merchants have solG $50 tons OF
commercial fertiliz +. We do not at
tempt to say that this vast purchase
/ is wise on tie part Of tile farmers, but 1t
does show that the business OF the town
i, in very healthy condition:
Mr.. Editor, you and your readers want
4 record OF things proper to be written,
in our town, and we try TO do so, but
YOU wait Il long letter, when we can put
the events of whole week into one
single paragraph and not crowd it much
either. Shall I tell YOU that the rains
have been, and are still very fine; that
the crops are looking remarkably we'll,
that tie cotton is nearly all hoed out
and much Of it plowed that the corn
has all been plowed The second time !;
that the farmers are iubilant over the
crop prospects that the ladies all think
their beans and irish potatoes, and cab
bage and okra, and tomatoes and Gu
cumbers and spring chickens and eggs
are all better than anybody else. There
is little use in our telling you all these
things because every body knows them
already and they love to talk about these
things, which they see and know every
day. Well man is strange compound
any way. He is most complicated
piece of machinery, and he looks at him
SELF and wonders how fearful land curious
he is made. We often see these old vet
Grams sit and talk for hours on subjects
that both are perfectly familiar with and
vet each will enter the fight with all the
ardor patriotism aud enthusiasm, and
tight over all their old battles, with
|. such vivid iervor that you almost
think that you hear the minnie
balls whistle by; that you see the
cannon balls plow up the earth that
1.-The grape shot arc rattling all around
YOU. and that column after column Is
hurled against some point that you hear
the shricks and groans of the wounded
that. you see men fall all around you, IN
a word you almost realize that you are
in tile battles around Richmond, or at
Fredericksburg, or Wilderness, or Sharps.
burg, or Chickamauga, Gettysburg
Such wonderful creature is man, but
we are lot going to say anything more
now. YUEE.